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Stalled in his company's pecking order, ad man David Howard failed to land the Senior VP slot he wanted. He quits, convinces wife Linda to do the same, sells their house and stocks and buys a Winnebago to roam the USA. Though they feel they're Easy Riders, they're actually Born to Be Mild. With their $145,000 nest egg tucked reassuringly within reach, they make their first stop: Las Vegas. Goodbye, nest egg. Greetings, hilarity.
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Now back in San Francisco after their holiday in New York, Nick and Nora Charles find themselves trying to solve another mystery. Nora's cousin Selma is accused of having murdered her husband, but for Nick it's clear that she is not the murderer and he starts to investigate, supported by Nora and Asta.
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Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr is the world-famous originator of zip-lock, screw-top brain surgery. Into his empty love life runs Delores Benedict, a stunning beauty with whom he falls in love while poking inside her gray matter. Unfortunately, the cranium cutter sweeps his patient into marriage before discovering that her gorgeousness hides a calculating heart of stone.
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The story unfolds in China, where Katrin's marriage to busy Dr. Walter Fane is in trouble. Lonely and neglected, she falls in love with diplomatic attaché Jack Townsend. When Walter discovers their affair, he takes Katrin inland to fight a cholera epidemic, maliciously thinking the disease will kill them both. But working together helps rebuild their marriage, until Townsend resurfaces. Now Katrin must choose.
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"Grif and Jenny Henderson are sailing for Europe and bound for marital mayhem. The Hendersons are a loving, All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip abroad. But once on the continent, family relations run aground when some teenage girls enter the picture and a scheming French playboy focuses his roving eye on Jenny"--Container.
10) Love crazy
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"On the night of her fourth wedding anniversary, Susan Ireland discovers her hubby Steve has been out carousing with an old flame. With the support of her overenthusiastic mother, she files for divorce, but the cunning Steve feigns insanity in order to postpone the proceedings and convince her she's got it all wrong. The plan almost works, but the trickery is turned when Susan has him committed to an asylum. Steve tries to escape and win back her...
11) Ada
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A Depression-era tale of corruption and power. Good ol' country boy Bo Gillis is elected governor based solely on smear tactics engineered by crooked party boss Sylvester Marin. Married to Ada, an ambitious call girl he met during the campaign, Bo soon discovers he's only a puppet with Marin pulling the strings. So when Ada convinces her husband to stand up and fight back, it leads to car bombings and blackmail as Marin battles the Gillises for control...
12) I love you again
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Big-city confidence man George Carey awakens from a nine-year amnesia to discover he has become the manager of a small-town pottery works, joined the Elks and married Kay Wilson. Partnered in a phony oil scam, he continues the charade, only to find that Kay is about to divorce him for being such a fuddy-duddy. His problem: how to get the dough, avoid discovery and re-win the heart of his wife.
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Suspicion: Well-to-do wallflower Lina McLaidlaw is in love, perhaps in danger. She suspects that Johnnie Aysgarth, the playboy who swept into her life and married her, is a murderer and that she may be his next victim.
I Confess: Father Michael Logan hears a killer's confession. Eyewitnesses then point to a priest as the murderer, and the sacrament of penance forbids Logan to speak out, even in his own defense, when circumstantial evidence targets...
14) Flight command
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"The night fog is like a soup you can stand your spoon in. But Alan Drake, en route to join the elite Navy Hell Cats fighter squadron, disobeys orders to abandon his aircraft and hit the silk. The headstrong maneuver doesn't sit well with the tightly knit squad. And the opinion of Drake will plunge further when he's suspected of romancing the unit commander's wife. This pre-war film with scenes of aerial training and readiness mirrored America's growing...
15) Follow the boys
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Follow the fun, follow the fleet. Navy wives and sweethearts careen around the French and Italian Riviera in a beat-up jalopy, trying to keep up with their seagoing menfolk. The girls are glamorous, but even they can't out-wow the scenery: Nice, Cannes, Santa Margherita Ligure, and a white-sand-fringed, brilliantly blue Mediterranean"--Container.
16) The good earth
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A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.